Multiple reports.

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.  A federal agency which oversees and regulates the safe use and handling of fireworks.

A fuse made from thread impregnated with black powder.

A multi-axially symmetrical break pattern wherein tailed stars are thrown out from the center apparently straight and hard, creating a burst of spokes and an expanding globe of color.

Similar to a Palm Tree shell.

A single burst of color stars.

An asymmetrical break of colored stars with multiple whistling of "screaming" serpents followed by a bottom shot or heavy report.

A large cylindrical pumped star that leaves a sparked tail.

The gold and silver sparked stars crackle, or erupt into snaps, pops, and flashes.

Also known as a Splitting Comet.  A  large pumped star that burns for a period of time then explodes from an internal shot.  Smaller burning fragments fly outward from the star's trajectory.  Traditionally, all stars in one timing break simultaneously.  A further refinement is to have the fragments display symmetrically representing smaller co [..]